It’s been the perfect mix of sun and rain to give the vegetables a good start. A little more heat would help some of the plants (namely the peppers), but most things look good.
Carrots
Carrots among the Garlic
The carrots were planted on a windy day. Good news, they’ve seeded and are growing nicely. Bad news, they aren’t all in the places that they were planted. This happens and I don’t get too worried about it. The picture above shows a carrot growing among the garlic plants. It will be interesting growing two in-the-ground plants right next to eachother. So far — so good.
Tomatoes
Tomato Plant, May 27, 2009
The tomato plants are looking good. For the first time, I planted the plants in the order in which they’ll bloom (early season, mid-season, and late season). Not suprisingly, the plants are growing at the same rate. Above is an early season tomato plant which is growing considerably faster than the other tomato plants. It’s hard to tell from the angle, but the plant is about a foot tall (the other plants are still in the 8 to 10 inch range).
Peppers
Peppers, May 27, 2009
The peppers are strong, but they haven’t been growing high. Peppers thrive in heat (which is the reason no many people grow hot peppers in the Midwest — the hotter the pepper, the more heat and sun you need). We’ve been averaging upper 60s for the past few weeks and the pepper plants need 80s. I’m hoping the weather picks up a bit and they’ll start to take off.
Herbs
Parsley and Cilantro, May 27, 2009
Cilantro and parsley are tough herbs to start. I’ve had many failed attempts at getting both to sprout and I’m happy to say there were no problems this year. Above you’ll see a few solidly growing cilantro and italian parsley plants. If you’ve never grown the two, it’s actually a little hard to tell them apart. Usually the smell test works — cilantro has a strong distinct smell. Please disregard my lack of weeding. Honestly, I’ve made mistakes and pulled herbs instead of weeds so I like to give it just a little time to establish themselves to figure out whether it is a weed or not.
Peas
Peas, May 27, 2009
The spinach is also going strong. I have three different stages of spinach growing right now. The picture above is from the first batch. I can start cutting each of these plants for some baby spinach, but I think I’m going to let it grow just one more week. There is another set of plants about 2 weeks behind and then a third set which just popped out of the ground.
A good start and plenty more pictures to take and a couple of more seeds to get in the ground in the next week.
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